Note: The following story is based on real events. Some names have been changed to protect the innocent. I'm aware it should be "Bay 12 Mafia Players' Mafia" [EDIT: Ugh, did I really put an apostrophe there?], but that's too long. Also, bear in mind that when I refer to a role it will be in bold, but when I refer to a player it will not be. The opening storyline is pretty long, sorry 'bout that.

The Bay 12 Mafia forums is having a meet up! The board has agreed to meet in a small town out in a desert somewhere, for extra fun and creepyness. Also, if there was anyone within about 10 miles, they'd probably call the police. The plan is to play a few games, discuss the theory a bit and show off your new ideas.

The first game, Live Grenade Mafia, is widely thought of as a huge success, with Bookadict's clever last turn gamble of sticking the grenade in the cutlery draw agreed as particularly innovative. Sure, you may have accidentally blown up a few rooms, but at least noone got (seriously) hurt.

The second game, Shot in the Dark Mafia, is less successful, and it is widely agreed that the "Murderer" role (Special: "You use a real gun instead of a BB gun") is overpowered and should be removed. Nonetheless, a good time is had by all, and by the evening you sit down and eat using what's left of the cutlery and crockery to eat the pizza and large quantities of wine brought for you (not a subtle pun, but it had to be done).

A long discussion about mafia theory (in which LoonyMan suggests a dual to the death with three different people over) follows, and you are glad that there are no neighbours around to complain about the fighting and random gunshots. After dinner is the event that everyone's been waiting for - Methilestesas' is unveiling his new mafia choosing programme. Apparently, it can not only distribute roles, but also make them up, balance them, verify them, make up flavour text and read minds. Great!

Methilestesas boots up the programme, and gives an example run. Everyone gasps as it creates a new game, Werewolf Mafia, from scratch (the object being to kill the infidels who refer to it as "Werewolf" rather than "Mafia") and writes flavour text for it. It then runs a computer generated game, and you are startled to see it writing out convincing arguments, random OMGUSes and tactical play from made up computer entities. Everyone applauses. On the question of how he made it, however, Methilestesas is less clear.

"I'm afraid I don't know" he says "It's just been doing more and more ever since it gained the capacity for self improvement..."

At that point, the door swung open. Everyone looks to the door to see a generic landlord with generic policemen on either side. "What the hell is going on here?!" says the landlord "I thought you said you were using fake grenades!"

The lights suddenly switch off, ominously. You hear gunshots and screams, and then the lights turn back on. The landlord and policemen are dead, and you take a look at their bodies.

The landlord seems to have been shot, but also stabbed by what appears to have been a perfect shot to the throat. One of the policemen is mysteriously missing, and the other... well... the place where he was is now basically a blood bath.

"Oh dear..." says Methilestesas "I thought this might happen. It was only a matter of time before it made the leap from my computer to reality.""What?" said Arg, who had only just woken up, "You're saying that... they've escaped?!""Yes." says Methilestesas, "I think they have. I reckon that several different types of scum must have escaped too.""Won't they, I dunno, fight each other?" said Cobrarsenic, who had finished suspiciously eying the wine in front of him."Probably not" says Methilestesas, "I think they will still have their generic scum coding in. They will form a team together, and they will try to hunt us down. It could be anyone in this room. Even me!"

There was a dramatic bolt of lightening outside, which was weird, because it was still a sunny day. As if on cue, a storm began to brew. It would seem the flavour text has escaped too. And it would also seemt that you have a group of assorted scum to hunt down before it's too late!

Anyway, I can take 15 signups for Bay12 mafia. The roles are (although you will not be told what they do unless you are the role or it is your "known role"):MethilestesasAlex-chanLeafslugLoonyManbookadictArgChAoTiCjImJanetFourEyesTaitheproficientMrs.HumanDrakonianCobrarsenicJetpigeonDracronArchCherub

Long hated for constant lurking, you now seek to prove 'em all wrong! Unfortunately, the other players are weary of you, and have slapped a penalty on you. You will not get a known role. Good luck convincing the other players that this is the case.

LoonyMan:

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You are LoonyMan. You love getting into arguments. A lot. If you are lynched and your vote is on one of the people voting for you, that person is lynched with you. Because double lynches are, like, the way forwards.

bookadict:

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You are bookadict. You are a magnet for hopelessly broken roles. While you have no powers this round, the person receiving your role as their known role will think you have a godly power.

Drakonian:

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You are Drakonian. The similarity of name with Dracron confuses other players. All night actions aimed for you will instead go to him, providing he's alive, and vice versa. This ability will not work if it is Dracron targetting you.

Taitheproficient:

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You are Taitheproficient. Once you find yourself attached to a theory, you find it difficult to shake. You get 2 votes, but you lose a vote each time you unvote (you cannot go into negative votes). You vote total is reset to 2 each night.

Alex-chan:

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You are Alex-chan. You have a large and slightly worrying obsession with hammers. Once per game, during the day phase, you can activate your ability via pm. You will run up to the player who has the most votes and smash their head in with a hammer. The day cannot end until at least 24 hours after this has happened.

By the way, this just happened by chance, but it is kind of funny, Alex-chan~!

Dracron:

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You are Dracron. The similarity of name with Drakonian confuses other players. All night actions aimed for you will instead go to him, providing he's alive, and vice versa. This ability will not work if it is Drakonian targetting you.

JanetFourEyes:

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You are JanetFourEyes. Quiet and analytical, you are perfectly placed to protect someone each night. You can send me the name of the person you want to protect, and you will go to their house and convince a would be killer of that person that killing the player they were aiming for is a bad idea. That player will hang around their house instead, however, and find out the protected players role.

Jetpigeon:

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As a new and inexperienced player, the other players do not take you very seriously. This means complacency, however, and after dark you will receive a list of all the roles who voted for you yesterday (though not who has which). This ability will not work if you were lynched.

ChAoTiCjIm:

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You are ChAoTiCjIm. Lurkers. Lurkers! LURKERS! You hate them with a passion. You may strangle someone each night, but only if they've made 2 or fewer posts in the previous day.

Mrs.Human:

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Man, the stress of lylo is just too much for you! However, you've been taking assertiveness classes, and you think you can handle it now. Unfortunately, this newfound assertiveness means that you cannot unvote during lylo.

Arg:

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You are Arg. You are often vague and unhelpful. Every night you may pm me somebody's name. You will then something something them.

Note: Arg is in fact a Secret Watcher, capable of determining who visits someone's room every night.Cobrarsenic:

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You are Cobrarsenic. Man, that went badly. Really badly. That day may have cost your side the game. However, you have an ace up your sleeve - when you are lynched, the day will reset back to its start, exactly how it was before. All actions done that day will be reset, as will all votes, and a new deadline will be set for the end of the day. This ability activates before you or any other evening kills roleflip, and it can only activate seven times once.

Methilestesas:

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As a respected player, you are a magnet for Night Actions, from both a suspicious town and a worried mafia. Once per game, during the night phase, you may activate your ability. All night actions performed that night will happen to you instead of to their original targets.

Leafslug:

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As game mod you get two known roles rather than one. It is up to you whether to tell everyone both of them or not.

You know, it's fucking uncanny how many times people scream that Jim is out to get them and has rallied the town to destroy them, like he's the head of some damn conspiracy theory or something. I've learned to recognize this as something I call "The Jimbot Fallacy".

Kept trying to think of something for your name, but couldn't think of another poison, so I changed the animal at the start.

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Question: Will the powers in this game be more like those in Vote Mafia or those in regular Mafia (Cop, Doctor, etc.)?

They will be based, to a very loose extent, upon character traits and playing styles. Or possibly arbitrarily based on a single event in one game. There will be some roles that are roughly similar to traditional ones, and some that are rather different.

Also, bear in mind that you do not have to be a role to join, and you will not be forced to join if you are a role. Sorry for not making that one clear .